Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 246)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 246 Feature configuration
rules/schedules, or manual requests by XProtect Smart Client users. It also allows central site users to
employ events originally triggered on remote sites on the central site.
Which XProtect product can act as central site and which can act as remote sites depends on the
specific setup. It differs from setup to setup which versions, how many cameras, and how devices and
events originating from the remote site are handled - if at all - by the central site. For further details on
how specific XProtect products interact in a Milestone Interconnect setup, go to Milestone
Interconnect™ website.
You add remote sites to the central site by using the the Address range scanning or Manual options
in the Add Hardware (on page 75) wizard. When you add the remote site, you must specify an
account on the remote site. This account can be either a basic user, local Windows user, or domain
user. You can reuse an existing user or create a new one to use with Milestone Interconnect. You
must create a new user on the remote system before creating the Milestone Interconnect setup.
Depending on the user rights for the selected user on the remote site, the central site gets access to
all cameras and functions or a sub-set of them.
About possible Milestone Interconnect setups
There are multiple ways to run Milestone Interconnect™.
In the following, the three most likely scenarios are described. How to run your setup depends on your
network connection, whether you request playback, and whether you retrieve remote recordings and
to what degree.
Direct playback from remote sites on request (good network connections)
The most straight forward setup. The central site is continuously online with its remote sites which
send remote recordings on request. Central site users play back remote recordings directly from the
remote sites. This requires use of the Play back recordings from remote system option.
Rule- or XProtect Smart Client-based retrieval of selected remote recording sequences
from remote sites (periodically limited network connections)
Used when selected recording sequences (originating from remote sites) should be stored centrally to
ensure independence from remote sites. Independence is crucial in case of network failure or network
restrictions. Configuring retrieval of remote recordings when the network connection is optimal, that is
not used for other priority data, can be done from the Remote Recordings tab.
Alternatively, remote recordings retrieval can be started from the XProtect Smart Client when needed
or a rule can be set up. In some scenarios, remote sites are on-line and in others, off-line most of the
time. This is often industry specific. For some industries it is common for the central site to be
permanently on-line with its remote sites (for example a retail HQ (central site) and a number of shops
(remote sites)). For other industries, like transportation, the remote sites are mobile (for example,
busses, trains, ships, and so on) and can only establish network connection randomly. Should the
network connection fail during a commenced remote recording retrieval, the job continues at next
given opportunity.
If the system receives an automatic retrieval, or request for retrieval from the XProtect Smart Client,
outside the time interval that you specified on the Remote Retrieval tab, it is accepted, but not started
until the selected time interval is reached. New remote recording retrieval jobs will queue and start
when the allowed time interval is reached. You can view pending remote recording retrieval jobs from
System Dashboard -> Current Tasks.